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-(No Model.) E. A. SHARP.

LETTER BOX.

No. 402,623. Patented May 7, 1889.

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EDWARD Asi-ITON sHARP, OE EPwORTH, OOUNTY OE LINCOLN, ENGLAND.

LETTER-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,623, dated May v,1889. Application led February 29, 1888. Serial No. 265,756. (No model.)Patented in England October 20, 1886, No. 13,874.

To' @ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWARD ASHTON SHARP,

residing at Epworth, in the'county of Lincoln, England, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Letter-Boxes, of which thefollowing is a specification.

English Letters Patent No. 13,374, dated October 20, 1886, have beengranted for this invention.

rIhe invention consists 'in the novel construction and combination ofthe parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, whereby the safety ofthe contents of the letter-box is more fully assured.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section through the letter-box,showing the sliding .receptacle lowered; and Fig. 2 is a similar viewshowing the receptacle raised.

C is the letter-box, provided with the flat The receptacle B is firstraised by the bellcrank, as shown in Fig. 2, and the letters are droppedinto it. The weight of the receptacle causes it to descend as soon asthe bellcrank is let go. It therefore assumes the position shown in Fig.l, and the letters are'automatioally discharged into the receptacle D,from whence they cannot be ,abstracted through the slit a.

In a letter-box, the combination, with the diagonally-arranged hollowreceptacle B, having separate openings at its upper and lower ends, ofthe bell-crank and cord for raising the said receptacle, the planesurface A, having an Opening, c, for the introduction of letters intothereceptacle, and the plane surface C and receptacle D, communicatingwith the receptacle B after its descent, whereby the letters areautomatically discharged therefrom into the said receptacle D,substantially as set forth. Y

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

EDWARD ASHTON SHARP.

Witnesses:

ROBERT CAPES, RD. RANDOLPH COGGON, y O'Zerks to Messrs. Parkin 6% C'o.,Solicitors,

Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.

